they also potentially have blow back on hillary clinton. as secretary of state hillary clinton was really the face of the so-called russian reset. so it seems to me that republicans are sort of going after her ability to have clear-eyed strong leadership. back in 2008 her strongest ad was that memorable what are you going to do at 3:00 a.m. who do you want picking up the phone when there's an international crises. it seems like there's also an attempt to pin some of the problems with russia on her and make that less of an appealing selling point for her in 2016. >> not just russia and the infamous mislabelled reset button but the notion of the obama administration. conservatives i'm sure would find it ridiculous to the point of insane for me to say that the president has been a pretty successful in the role of commander in chief, but really he has been. the biggest block that he's got in terms of the global chess match i think is what happened last year with syria, the drawing of the red line and the fact that it really took putin in a way